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Each fall, the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services holds province-wide public consultations on the next provincial budget pursuant to Section 2 of the Budget Transparency and Accountability Act. The Committee released its report on November 15, 2017, including 119 unanimous recommendations focusing on 12 themes such as health care, social services, education, housing, fiscal policy, environment, and transportation and transit. The submissions received during the Budget 2018 Consultation are available under Committee Documents. Read more in the Media Release.

The Committee is also empowered to consider and to make recommendations on the annual reports, rolling three-year service plans, and budgets of B.C.'s eight statutory officers. The Committee released its report on the Annual Review of the Budgets of Statutory Offices on December 18, 2017.

The Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services is one of nine permanent all-party committees of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Further information on the role, functions and work of the Committee, is included in its
Terms of Reference.

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Terms of Reference

​On September 14, 2017, the Legislative Assembly agreed that the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services be empowered:

To examine, inquire into and make recommendations with respect to the budget consultation paper prepared by the Minister of Finance in accordance with
section 2 of the
Budget Transparency and Accountability Act, S.B.C. 2000, c. 23 and, in particular, to:

Conduct public consultations across British Columbia on proposals and recommendations regarding the provincial budget and fiscal policy for the coming fiscal year by any means the committee considers appropriate;

Prepare a report no later than November 15, 2017 on the results of those consultations; and

To consider and make recommendations on the annual reports, rolling three-year service plans and budgets of the following statutory officers:

Auditor General

Chief Electoral Officer

Conflict of Interest Commissioner

Information and Privacy Commissioner

Merit Commissioner

Ombudsperson

Police Complaint Commissioner

Representative for Children and Youth; and

To examine, inquire into and make recommendations with respect to other matters brought to the Committee's attention by any of the Officers listed in 2 (a) above.

In addition to the powers previously conferred upon the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services, the committee shall be empowered:

to appoint of their number one or more subcommittees and to refer to such subcommittees any of the matters referred to the Committee;

to sit during a period in which the House is adjourned, during the recess after prorogation until the next following Session and during any sitting of the House;

to adjourn from place to place as may be convenient; and

to retain personnel as required to assist the Committee,

and shall report to the House as soon as possible, or following any adjournment, or at the next following Session, as the case may be; to deposit the original of its reports with the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly during a period of adjournment and upon resumption of the sittings of the House, the Chair shall present all reports to the Legislative Assembly.

<p><a href="/content/CommitteeDocuments/41st-parliament/2nd-session/FGS/StatutoryOffices/20171121_RCY_BudgetSubmission.pdf" target="_blank">Office of the Representative for Children and Youth, Budget Submission, Fiscal Years 2018/19 – 2020-21<br></a><a href="/content/CommitteeDocuments/41st-parliament/2nd-session/FGS/StatutoryOffices/20171121_RCY_AnnualReport2016-17AndServicePlan2017-18_2018-19.pdf" target="_blank">Office of the Representative for Children and Youth, Annual Report 2016/17 and Service Plan 2017/18 to 2018/19<br></a><a href="/content/CommitteeDocuments/41st-parliament/2nd-session/FGS/StatutoryOffices/20171121_RCY_BudgetSubSuppTables.pdf" target="_blank">Office of the Representative for Children and Youth, Budget Submission Supplementary Tables</a><br><a href="/content/CommitteeDocuments/41st-parliament/2nd-session/FGS/StatutoryOffices/20171121_RCY_FinancialStatements2016-17.pdf" target="_blank">Office of the Representative for Children and Youth, Financial Statement 2016/17</a></p><p><a href="/content/CommitteeDocuments/41st-parliament/2nd-session/FGS/StatutoryOffices/20171121_OIPC_BudgetSubmission2018-19.pdf" target="_blank">Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia and Office of the Registrar Lobbyists, Budget Submission, Fiscal Years 2018/19-2020/21<br></a><a href="/content/CommitteeDocuments/41st-parliament/2nd-session/FGS/StatutoryOffices/20171121_OIPC_AnnualReport2016-2017.pdf" target="_blank">Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia Annual Report 2016 2017<br></a><a href="/content/CommitteeDocuments/41st-parliament/2nd-session/FGS/StatutoryOffices/20171121_OIPC_ServicePlan2018-2019.pdf" target="_blank">Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia and Office of the Registrar Lobbyists, Service Plan, Fiscal Years 2018/19-2020/21<br></a><a href="/content/CommitteeDocuments/41st-parliament/2nd-session/FGS/StatutoryOffices/20171121_ORL_2016-2017Annual%20Report.pdf" target="_blank">Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists, Annual Report 2016-17<br></a><a href="/content/CommitteeDocuments/41st-parliament/2nd-session/FGS/StatutoryOffices/20171121_OIPC_BudgetSubSuppTables.pdf" target="_blank">Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia and Office of the Registrar Lobbyists, Budget Submission Supplementary Tables</a></p>